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that man. Absolutely in sympathy with the work, he gave it of 

 his time and energy, smoothing out the difficulties, untangling the 

 knots, and cutting departmental red tape in a way that showed him 

 to be the splendid executive he is. 



The territory to be covered extended from the Delaware River 

 eastwardly about two and one-half miles, and from Kaighn Avenue, 

 Camden, on the north to a point about one mile south of the mouth 

 of Timber Creek (the southern boundary of Gloucester City), a 

 territory about four and one-half miles long by two and a half 

 miles wide, taking in many acres of low lying land and swamps 

 and numerous streams and creeks. After considerable difficulty, 

 fairly good maps of the district to be covered were secured. These 

 maps were divided into districts, which were subdivided into sec- 

 tions, each section constituting a good day's work for an inspector. 

 The inspectors, of which there were four, covered these sections 

 on an average of once a week, making daily reports of the various 

 breeding places and the condition of each, with suggestions as to how 

 each place should be handled. These reports were turned over to 

 the working gangs and the breeding places eliminated, if possible, 

 by ditching, straightening edges of creeks, etc., and if not possible 

 of elimination, controlled by the use of oil and larvicides. 



Outside of the rain and fire barrels, swamps, creeks, etc., where 

 breeding was naturally looked for, two instances of bad breeding 

 stand out. One in the cellars of the housing development of the 

 New York Shipbuilding plant, about a mile east of the yard,, and 

 on the banks of Newton Creek, and the other in the basement of 

 the buildings housing the Hospital and Sanitation Department of 

 the New Jersey and Pennsylvania Plants at Gloucester. The New 

 York Ship housing proposition, a development of some two thous- 

 and houses, was being built on low and filled-in ground and with each 

 rain or high tide, the water backed up in the cellars and remained 

 there to a depth of from one inch to four feet, and until these cel- 

 lars were underdrained and waterproofed they afforded a most 

 prolific breeding place. The contractors for the work objected 

 to the use of oil, as it marked the walls and floors, but the situation 

 was readily handled by the use of Larvsecide, made especially for 

 me by the West Disinfecting Co. In case of the New Jersey and 

 Pennsylvania building, conditions were practically the same, but 

 here we were able to use oil, and by that method succeeded in 



